Health & Wellness
Healthier Lives Coalition Highlights Dietary Shifts and Better Nutrition at Paris 2025 Nutrition for Growth Event
In alignment with World Health Day, the Paris 2025 Nutrition for Growth Event reflected on the importance of collective action to improve nutrition, particularly in the area of maternal health. Ahead of the event on...
Healthier Lives
Switching the Salt: Why Retailers Hold the Key to Reducing Sodium at Scale
High blood pressure affects more than 1.4 billion people worldwide and remains the leading preventable cause of death globally. Excess dietary sodium is the single most important dietary driver of raised blood pressure yet progress...
Healthier Lives
Spotlight on Health: CGF Members Lead the Way Towards a Healthier Future
The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Healthier Lives Coalition (HL) steering committee met in London from 20 – 21 October 2025, bringing together leaders from across the retail, manufacturing, and health sectors to align on priorities...
Health & Wellness
Prioritising Health: Danone and Tesco, Co-Chairs of the Healthier Lives Coalition Highlight Achievements and Future Ambitions
The Collaboration for Healthier Lives Coalition (CHL), an initiative of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), brings together 37 manufacturers and retailer member companies, with over 5.8 million global employees, as well as public health authorities...
Healthier Lives
Healthier Lives Coalition Welcomes New Members: Reckitt and Woolworths Group
The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) is pleased to welcome two new members to the Healthier Lives (HL) Coalition. Health and home hygiene manufacturer Reckitt, and the retailer Woolworths Group bringing the membership to 37 consumer...
Healthier Lives
Lessons in Longevity: China and Japan Explore Paths to Better, Longer Lives
The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) members in China and Japan are joining forces to help people live better, longer lives. At a pivotal meeting in Shanghai on 2 July 2025, the CGF China Healthier Lives...
Corporate
Reflections from COP28
Just short of 100,000 badges were issued for participants to attend the recent UN climate talks in Dubai, touted by many as a defining moment in our fight against climate change. Sharon Bligh, Director of...
Corporate
Rethinking Sustainability at NYCW: From Ambition to Agility
New York Climate Week (NYCW) 2025 once again brought together business leaders, policymakers, NGOs, and innovators in a high-energy atmosphere. This year, however, the tone was different. Instead of spotlighting individual achievements, conversations focused on...
Healthier Lives
Uniting Sectors to Bridge Health and Labour: A Call to Action on Workforce Nutrition
On the 23rd May, ahead of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, The Consumer Goods Forum’s Health and Sustainability Director, Sharon Bligh, along with NGO partner, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), convened with...
Healthier Lives
Driving Change Through Healthier Choices: How METRO France, Chefs and Manufacturers Inspire Healthier Menus
In the past four years, the Mon Restaurant Passe Au Durable (“My Restaurant Goes Sustainable”) initiative has continued to inspire chefs across France to adopt healthier and more sustainable recipes into their menus. The initiative...